Jagger Update And Other Google Newsbytes
The buzz on Google’s latest algo update (nicknamed Jagger) has crashed the WebmasterWorld Forums, but the discussion continues here. Plenty of complaints on the new update on the Search Engine World Forums.
Google engineer, Matt Cutts, offers tips on his blog on how to weather the Jagger Update. Matt also confirms that the new Google Jagger Update will show new PageRanks (LarryPageRanks) for some sites and the new PageRank update is accessible via some IPs.
Jim Boykin discusses how to deal with the paranoia that erupts with algorithm updates. So far the update’s been good for all our sites. Probably cause we don’t chase algos anyway. 
Speaking of spam, Google’s Blogger and Blogspot blog hosting service were also targeted yesterday for attack by software that creates thousands of spam-blogs (or splogs). Read more about it in Blog Wars II: Attack Of The Splogs.
In other news, “Do No Evil” is proving very profitable for the Google as their rapidly rising profits soared to new heights in the third quarter as its internet-leading search engine churned out a sevenfold earnings increase that blew past analyst expectations. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, attributed much of the earnings blowout due to “Product Improvements“.
Google has also fallen in line with the concern voiced by Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam’s concerns over possible misuse of Google Earth’s high resolution images of sensitive locations by terrorists. Google has offered to hold discussions with the Government on the issue, though interestingly, making no such offer to Thailand, which echoed the same concerns.
In other irrelevant news, just spotted this on the SearchEngineWorld forum: A new portal for India (so what’s new, already?) called Google4India. It looks no different from the hundreds of other Indian portals and the disclaimer at the bottom of the page says: * Google4india is not in anyway associated with Google Inc. This site is developed for the love we have on Google. Whatever!
